From 0d40d30d876773c06e6ff44b99fc0988c013650c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elias Schneider <login@eliasschneider.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:34:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add environment variable to disable built-in rate
 limiting

---
 backend/internal/common/env_config.go     | 9 +++++----
 backend/internal/middleware/rate_limit.go | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend/internal/common/env_config.go b/backend/internal/common/env_config.go
index 687b1c24..d2fd450f 100644
--- a/backend/internal/common/env_config.go
+++ b/backend/internal/common/env_config.go
@@ -70,10 +70,11 @@ type EnvConfigSchema struct {
 	GeoLiteDBPath     string `env:"GEOLITE_DB_PATH"`
 	GeoLiteDBUrl      string `env:"GEOLITE_DB_URL"`
 
-	LogLevel       string `env:"LOG_LEVEL" options:"toLower"`
-	MetricsEnabled bool   `env:"METRICS_ENABLED"`
-	TracingEnabled bool   `env:"TRACING_ENABLED"`
-	LogJSON        bool   `env:"LOG_JSON"`
+	LogLevel            string `env:"LOG_LEVEL" options:"toLower"`
+	MetricsEnabled      bool   `env:"METRICS_ENABLED"`
+	TracingEnabled      bool   `env:"TRACING_ENABLED"`
+	LogJSON             bool   `env:"LOG_JSON"`
+	DisableRateLimiting bool   `env:"DISABLE_RATE_LIMITING"`
 }
 
 var EnvConfig = defaultConfig()
diff --git a/backend/internal/middleware/rate_limit.go b/backend/internal/middleware/rate_limit.go
index 210ea273..c0d75979 100644
--- a/backend/internal/middleware/rate_limit.go
+++ b/backend/internal/middleware/rate_limit.go
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ func NewRateLimitMiddleware() *RateLimitMiddleware {
 }
 
 func (m *RateLimitMiddleware) Add(limit rate.Limit, burst int) gin.HandlerFunc {
+	if common.EnvConfig.DisableRateLimiting == true {
+		return func(c *gin.Context) {
+			c.Next()
+		}
+	}
+	
 	// Map to store the rate limiters per IP
 	var clients = make(map[string]*client)
 	var mu sync.Mutex